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DISPENSING DEVICE Filed July 12, 1950 a- 221mm; /4 27 In I? a /0 I! /8 1 g I I /2 g l2 a I a 0/ K g 20 E n I fig 22 I 22 i 'i R A Inventor George H. Yassa United States Patent DISPENSING DEVICE George H. Yasso, Bethlehem, Pa.

Application July 12, 1950, Serial No. 173,285

1 Claim. (Cl. 222-456) This invention relates to new and useful improvements and structural refinements in dispensing devices, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device of the character herein described whereby the dispensing operation may be effected in several different ways, such as for example, by sifting, by pouring a predetermined quantity, or by pouring any desired quantity of material. Although the invention may be used with materials of different types, it is primarily intended for dispensing of sugar.

Some of the advantages of the invention reside in its simplicity of construction, in its efficient operation, in its pleasing appearance, and in its adaptability to economical manufacture.

With the above more important objects and features in view and such other objects and features as may become apparent as this specification proceeds, the invention consists essentially of the arrangement and construction of parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof;

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view, taken substantially in the plane of line 3-3 in Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the invention in position for dispensing a measured amount of material;

Figure 5 is a top plan view of the invention in position for pouring any desired amount of material, and

Figure 6 is a top plan view of the invention in position for sifting the material therefrom.

Like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts in the specification and throughout the several views.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the invention consists of a dispensing device which is designated generally by the reference character 10 and embodies in its construction a suitable container 12 having a screw threaded cover 14 thereon, the cover 14 being provided at the center thereof with a tubular adapter 16 in which is slidably telescoped the upper end portion of a tubular outlet duct 18. a

The duct 18 is positioned axially in the container 12 and is provided at the lower end thereof with what may be called a measuring funnel 20. The lower edge of this funnel rests on the bottom of the container 12 and is provided with a plurality of spaced inlet notches 22, as shown.

The cover 14 is provided with what may be called a discharge opening 24 which is in register with the tubular adapter 16, and in addition, the cover is formed with a circular pouring opening 26 and with a group of sifter openings or apertures 28. The pouring opening 26 as well as the sifter apertures 28 communicate with the interior of the container 12, that is, exteriorly of the duct 18 and funnel 20, and a combined valve or dispensing selector and closure disk 32 is pivoted at 34 to the upper surface of the cover 14, and edge portion of the disk 32 projecting outwardly beyond the marginal edge of the cover, so that the disk may be easily rotated.

2,704,623 Patented Mar. 22, 1955 ice The pivot 34 on the disk 32 is located eccentrically on the cover 14 and is equidistant from the center of the group of apertures 28 and the respective centers of the openings 24, 26, so that by rotating the disk 32, a discharge opening 36 formed in the disk may be brought in register selectively with the openings 24, 26 or group of apertures 28.

When in use, the container 12 is filled with sugar or some other material and a predetermined quantity of this material, for example, one teaspoon full, will pass through the notches 22 into the funnel 20. Thus, with the disk 32 located so that the discharge opening 36 is in register with the outlet opening 24, the device may be inverted and the measured amount of sugar poured outwardly through the duct 18 from the funnel 20. However, when it is desired to pour an unlimited quantity of sugar from the container, the disk 32 is rotated so that the discharge opening 36 registers with the pouring opening 26, as shown in Figure 5. Alternatively, by rotating the disk 32 so that the discharge opening 36 is in register with the group of apertures 28, the sugar may be sifted out of the container.

When the disk is rotated so that the discharge open ing 36 is disposed at a point diametrically opposed to the sifter openings 28 with respect to the pivot 34, the disk covers the openings 24, 26 and 28 and the device is closed. When the container 12 is to be refilled, the cover 14 is simply removed therefrom while the adapter 16 is slid off the upper end of the duct 18, which eliminates the necessity of removing the duct and the funnel 20 from the container.

It is believed that the advantages and use of the invention will be readily understood from the foregoing disclosure and accordingly, further description thereof at this point is deemed unnecessary.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention, it is to be understood that minor changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A dispensing device of the character described comprising: a cylindrical container, a circular cover removably mounted on said container and having central and off-center discharge openings therein, a vertical duct in the container connected to the cover and communicating with the central opening therein, a measuring funnel on the lower end of said duct communicating therewith and with the container, and a valve for controlling the openings, said valve including a disk closing the openings and rotatably secured to the cover at a point therebetween, said disk having an opening therein for selective registry with the first named openings, a portion of the periphery of said disk projecting beyond said cover for manual actuation.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 860,170 Weineis July 16, 1907 887,760 Blood May 19, 1908 1,280,654 Bream Oct. 8, 1918 1,901,811 Hochstatter Mar. 14, 1933 1,919,043 Roth July 18, 1933 1,919,582 Yasso July 25, 1933 1,940,079 Davis Dec. 19, 1933 2,108,063 Hothersall Feb. 15, 1938 2,510,757 Reid June 6, 1950 

